Chapter 13: Cotton
This time, it was Lu Yangge and Lu Xiaoyu who came to deliver zongye with baskets.
They picked a basket full of them, and Lu Yangge gave Aunt Ding ten handfuls of zongzi leaves for five cents, and also built a few handfuls of mat grass tied with zongzi.
Seeing that Lu Xiaosi is so good at doing things, Aunt Ding is indeed happy. With the recommendation of Aunt Ding, she sold it with a gift, and sold it for 20 copper coins.
The little fish don't know what to do.
Before leaving, Lu Yangge bought pig's feet and the remaining pig bones at Aunt Ding's house.
Aunt Ding was coaxed by Lu Yangge to smile one by one, and proudly gave them the pig intestine that was not sold today.
The weather is hot, and the offal that can't be sold will turn bad after a long time, so it's better to give it away.
Whoever you send is a gift, it's better to give the child of the Lu family, who called this child a sweet mouth, and it completely grew up in her heart!
Lu Xiaoyu, who followed Lu Yangge to deliver things, was so happy that she almost knelt down and kowtowed to Aunt Ding a few times, and recognized Aunt Ding as her grandmother.
This family is so good, she has meat at home!
After buying pig's feet and pig bones, Lu Yangge led Lu Xiaoyu around the street again, and spent three cents to buy seasonings.
Passing by the cloth shop, the shopkeeper was holding a feather duster and chasing the young man in the store.
The young man was only thirteen or fourteen years old, and he was whistling at the shopkeeper, and he didn't dare to resist, but only cowered in a corner of the shop and wailed lowly.
"Something that loses my conscience, if it weren't for your mother begging me, I would have taken you as a buddy?"
The shopkeeper of the cloth shop had a short and round body, and he gasped for breath as soon as he spoke, and he became more and more gasping because he had sold some strength to beat people.
"You say, I told you to look at the fabric, you are lazy at night, and my good material for white flowers is ruined. You conscienceless thing, you want my life. ”
The young man didn't resist when he was beaten, but he couldn't help but raise his head and defend angrily: "Uncle, it's not my fault, the cloth was put in the warehouse on the left by the eldest cousin." If it weren't for the eldest cousin who kicked Rhubarb to death a few days ago, how could the treasury be consumed......"
"You still say, you still say ......"
It's good that the young man doesn't refute, but the more he refutes, the more the shopkeeper's feather duster wields it, "You are still stubborn when you do something wrong, that's how your mother taught you?" ”
This shopkeeper, don't look at him panting so much, it's really good to beat people.
The feather duster was about to turn into an afterimage, and the young man's thin clothes were already faintly showing bloodstains.
Lu Yangge frowned when he saw it, and couldn't help but raise his hand to pick up a lump of dirt and throw it into the store, which happened to hit the shopkeeper's feet.
"Who?"
Shopkeeper Luo held a feather duster and looked outside at the lively crowd.
Everyone didn't speak, even Lu Yangge, who threw your pimple, hugged his arms, with a posture that I didn't know, I didn't see.
"**,"
Shopkeeper Luo scolded fiercely, holding a feather duster and preparing to wave it at the young man.
The proprietress of the rouge shop next door to the cloth shop couldn't stand it, so she couldn't help but push her man: "Don't go up and stop it." ”
The shopkeeper of the rouge shop was pushed by his daughter-in-law, and he involuntarily stepped forward to pull the rack: "Okay, okay, if you keep fighting, your only nephew must be beaten to death by you." ”
"Kill it, useless thing."
Pulled by the shopkeeper of the rouge shop, the shopkeeper of the cloth shop kicked the young man with a snort and smacked again.
Turning his head and complaining to the shopkeeper of the rouge shop who pulled the rack: "You say, I am such a nephew, can I not hurt him?" In the past few years since his father died, if the family hadn't relied on me to take care of it, would my frail sister and her blind mother-in-law be able to support the family? ”
The righteousness of these words is awe-inspiring, and people who don't know the inside story nod frequently, and they all think that the shopkeeper of the cloth shop is a good uncle.
The brother-in-law died, leaving only a blind mother, a sick sister, and a young nephew.
In the past two years, natural disasters and man-made disasters have continued, and without the help of his uncle, the family would indeed not be able to survive.
Only the neighbors on the left and right, who knew the inside story, couldn't help but sneer: "It's as if his sister and brother-in-law didn't set up his shop." ”
"That is, how poor the Luo family was back then, it wasn't that Luo Huiniang married Dong Da, so the Luo family could eat enough."
The proprietress of the rouge shop, who had already retreated to the crowd, couldn't help but open her mouth: "What is his sister and brother-in-law Zhang Luo, obviously this shop belongs to the Dong family." ”
"What?"
As soon as the proprietress of the rouge shop said this, most people were shocked.
Jiangjiaba Town is not big, when this cloth shop was open, they saw Shopkeeper Luo busy going in and out, why is this shop not his?
Maybe the shopkeeper Luo is unpopular, or he has really done something that is not authentic enough.
The proprietress of the rouge shop didn't speak, and the others couldn't wait to open their mouths first: "I heard that this cloth shop was actually set up by Dong Da for Hui Niang, and Luo Hui Niang is also kind-hearted, so let her only maiden brother take care of the shop." Who knew that Dong Da's father and son had an accident in the sea, and the corpses were gone, and the cloth shop was occupied by Hui Niang and her brother, not that Dong Da sold it to him at the beginning. ”
"I've also heard about this, the Dong family had just had an accident at that time, not to mention that there were no men at home to help, and those merchants who ran the boat with Dong Da could trample the Dong family flat. When the Dong family finally sold the family property and lost the silver, they came to ask for this store again, where would the surnamed Luo be willing to give it......"
That's what happened!
The onlookers couldn't help but dislike the short and fat shopkeeper Luo, and couldn't help but point and whisper.
Xu is talking a little loudly outside, and he was heard by Shopkeeper Luo. Or the shopkeeper Luo sensed that something was wrong, so he actually left the shopkeeper of the rouge shop who was talking, and walked to everyone with a white horse on the counter.
"Look at my material, it's the best cotton. This color, this softness, I bought it from Yangzhou at a great price. Now my white cloth is not favored by my uncompetitive nephew, and several horses have been damaged, I don't blame me for beating him, it really makes me feel distressed! ”
Everyone was still puzzled by the meaning of the shopkeeper, so they saw him raise the white cloth in his hand and let people see a few damages and yellow spots on it: "Now my white cloth is not favored by my uncompetitive nephew, and it has damaged several horses, don't blame me for beating him, it really makes me feel distressed!" ”
You boldly shouted immediately: "Distressed is distressed, you can't beat the child like this, the Dong family is left with this only seedling." ”
"Am I not angry?" Shopkeeper Luo looked innocent.
"The children in the family were beaten and scolded, and they couldn't let him lose money. I thought, or this cloth will be cheaper and sold to the big guys. ”
As soon as they heard that the shopkeeper Luo said that he wanted to sell cloth, everyone immediately took a few steps back.
This shopkeeper Luo is selfish and stingy, and no one can take advantage of him.
On the contrary, it was Lu Yangge, looking at the cotton cloth in the hand of the shopkeeper Luo, his eyes lit up.
Xiao Wu is still naked, if he can buy some cloth cheaply and go back to make clothes for him to wear, it will be considered that he has not worked in vain today.